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From the Editor's desk (November 2011)Tony Addison As we come to the end of November, the snow has yet to arrive in Helsinki. We continue to enjoy clear skies and spectacular sunsets...
Tony Addison As we come to the end of November, the snow has yet to arrive in Helsinki. We continue to enjoy clear skies and spectacular sunsets...
Imed Drine Many observers see youth unemployment as the major reason behind the recent popular uprisings in a number of Arab countries. Increasing...
Rolph van der Hoeven and Peter van Bergeijk One of the most important trends that emerged since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...
by Jose Antonio Ocampo With economic activity falling by close to 1 percent in 2002, Latin America will complete a lost half-decade in terms of...
The celebration of the 30th Anniversary of UNU-WIDER presented the ideal opportunity to look back, take stock, and plan ahead. Where else can a group...
by Vladimir Popov The economic performance of the successor states of the former Soviet Union (FSU) has been disappointing. GDP has fallen by roughly...
by Richard Jolly The gap between rich and poor nations is now at its highest ever level. OECD Research by Angus Maddison shows that differences in...
by S. Mansoob Murshed The WIDER research project on 'Globalization and the Obstacles to the Successful Integration of Vulnerable Economies' is...
by Jorge Saba Arbache and John Page During the last three decades growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been both low and highly volatile. Between 1975 and...
by Paul Collier Alarge group of smallish countries totalling about a billion people have sheered off from the rest of mankind. As the world becomes...
by Augustin Kwasi Fosu Many African countries grew fairly strongly until the early 1980s. If that growth had been maintained, these countries could...